Anyone travelling within the UK is fleeced for travel tax where we must surely have the highest travel costs in the world. It is the British government’s biggest tax earner and when, after so many years, they give some of this tax back to the people who have been fleeced – ie the over-60s free bus passes – it feels like a lottery win.

However, to the bus oper-ators it must be like another tax, as the Government’s payments fall short of the costs.

I think that should the over-60s in towns and cities want to travel more than 15 miles they should pay half fare and people in country villages, where there is only one bus every one to four hours, should continue to get theirs free.

This way the bus operators will get a subsidy and not a tax, thus saving their services by not having to cut routes and making more people redundant.

If the bus pass scheme is not retuned the bus operators will bend the ears of government to stop their over-60s tax losses.

Ray Fletcher
High Street, Brighton